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ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/1531326.1531366
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animation; character dynamics; spacetime optimization; gait
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We present a fully automatic method for generating gaits and morphologies for legged animal locomotion. Given a specific animal's shape we can determine an efficient gait with which it can move. Similarly, we can also adapt the animal's morphology to be optimal for a specific locomotion task. We show that determining such gaits is possible without the need to specify a good initial motion, and without manually restricting the allowed gaits of each animal. Our approach is based on a hybrid optimization method which combines an efficient derivative-aware spacetime constraints optimization with a derivative-free approach able to find non-local solutions in high-dimensional discontinuous spaces. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach by synthesizing dynamic locomotions of bipeds, a quadruped, and an imaginary five-legged creature.
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